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THE UNWRITTEN LAWS OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Author(s) -
McClinton David F.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1994.tb01820.x
Subject(s) - law , simple (philosophy) , social engineering (security) , process (computing) , engineering , computer science , sociology , political science , computer security , philosophy , epistemology , operating system
The paper states some of the unwritten but spoken laws that abound in any engineering project. The laws are really simple basic truths that arise in typical engineering discussions. We didn't hear them in engineering school but they came through loud and clear in that school of hard knocks, the engineering project. The initial three laws are (1) Everything interacts with everything else; (2) Everything goes somewhere; and (3) There is no such thing as a free lunch. Several other laws capture the lessons learned in various activities in the systems engineering process.